Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Let’s live like Wisconsin in October and let the sun light us with unabashed glee even as winter looms. Let’s wink and shimmy our russet leaves, hoist them high and proud and then let them fall without regret. Let’s keep our rustic roads all spruced up so they’re always ready to welcome wanderers. And, when [...]
I heard the echo of Walt Whitman as I treated myself to a solo walk through the woods Sunday morning (which turned out to be a nice palette cleanser for the stress of that crazy Packer game.) Fog lifted as I strolled along and that felt like a metaphor. We humans breath a little deeper [...]
I thought about balance a lot in the days leading up to this week’s autumnal equinox, because we all seem to be doing more than our fair share of that these days. In the midst of this infernal pandemic, we continue to balance physical health versus mental health and we try to make the best [...]
Appleton rocks, especially this past Saturday where, within a two mile stretch, you could watch a National Tree Climbing Championship, attend the first annual Irish Fest, walk through a peak-season Farmer's Market and enjoy Rhythms of the World, a celebration of multi-cultural generosity and transcendent beauty. After all of that, we were also lucky enough [...]
I didn’t even know my friend Ann and her husband Pat kept bees until I saw her Facebook post announcing their hives’ triumphant return from a winter in California. I also didn’t know that people sent their honey bees to winter in warmer climes. Or, just how precisely a community of bees works to make [...]